Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 377, Issue 2, Pages 236-247Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-003-2082-z
Keywords
trace element speciation; ICP-MS; chromatography; large biomolecules; biological samples; bio-inorganic proteomics
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Latest studies on the chemical association of trace elements to large biomolecules and their importance on the bioinorganic and clinical fields are examined. The complexity of the speciation of metal-biomolecules associations in various biological fluids is stressed. Analytical strategies to tackle speciation analysis and the-state-of-the-art of the instrumentation employed for this purpose are critically reviewed. Hyphenated techniques based on coupling chromatographic separation techniques with ICP-MS detection are now established as the most realistic and potent analytical tools available for real-life speciation analysis. Therefore, the status and potential of metal and semimetals elemental speciation in large biocompounds using ICP-MS detection is mainly focused here by reviewing reported metallo-complexes separations using size-exclusion (SEC), ion-exchange (IE), reverse phase chromatography (RP) and capillary electrophoresis (CE). Species of interest include coordination complexes of metals with larger proteins (e.g. in serum, breat milk, etc.) and metallothioneins (e.g. in cytosols from animals and plants) as well as selenoproteins (e.g. in nutritional supplements), DNA-cisplatin adducts and metal/semimetal binding to carbohydrates. An effort is made to assess the potential of present trace elements speciation knowledge and techniques for 'heteroatom-tagged' (via ICP-MS) proteomics.
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